
In our morning reading: an interview with Kevin Young, thoughts on Sir Richard Bishop’s new album, and more.

In our morning reading: an interview with Kevin Young, thoughts on Sir Richard Bishop’s new album, and more.

In our morning reading: interviews with Idra Novey and Kamasi Washington, Charlie Jane Anders on reading, and more.

In our afternoon reading: an interview with Serkan Görkemli, revisiting the Fletch novels, and more.

Vincent Czyz’s novel Sun Eye Moon Eye traces the post-genocidal, and by extension post-apocalyptic, journey of Logan Blackfeather, a Hopi “of mixed descent.” On the surface, Logan’s story revolves around coming to terms with his father’s death; the suicide of the abusive uncle who replaced him (as titular father only); the knifing of a racist truck driver for which he is sent to prison and then a psychiatric facility; and his slow reemergence into the world via the therapeutic trinity of love—his relationship with Shawna, a woman he meets on the lam in Manhattan—art—his return to composing the music he’d given up on in the midst of trauma—and ethnic reconciliation—reclaiming his heritage from the legacy of colonialism and settlement. On a deeper level, Logan’s journey is really about his dwelling along the margin of where the waking world—one of broken families, addiction, poverty, deracination, violence—meets an animist dreamscape—southwestern geography fused to a Hopi mythography.